THE Foreign Office has agreed to help a grieving mother find out exactly how her son died while on holiday in Spain.

Government officials will support Dolores Haigh-Hadfield after she slated Spanish police for the way they investigated her son Martin's fatal fall from his hotel balcony.

Although she is relieved there was no indication of foul play, she feels there are still many questions left unanswered.

Martin, 34, a driver with Circle Cabs in Ellesmere Port, lived on Talbot Road, Great Sutton.

He was found dead outside the Horizonte Hotel in Palma, Majorca, on Wednesday, September 15, last year.

Mrs Haigh-Hadfield, who lives with her partner, Tommy Owens, on Cedar Avenue, Little Sutton, said: 'It's really shoddy the way the authorities over there have dealt with this. They have been so blase.'

She is considering getting a solicitor to write to the Foreign Office and Spanish police to find out more about the way Martin died.

A Foreign Office spokesman told the Pioneer: 'Mrs Haigh-Hadfield should send her concerns to us and we'll forward them to our embassy in Malaga so the relevant Spanish authorities can take them into account.'

Mother-of-three Mrs Haigh-Had-field told her son's inquest in Chester the toxicology tests carried out seem to have been lost in Spain.

No witness from the hotel attended the hearing.

And she was promised a death certificate from Spain, which she never received.

Martin's mobile phone, seized for examination in Spain, was returned - minus its SIM card.

'That is something very personal, and of sentimental value, because I sent him a text message earlier that night,' said Mrs Haigh-Hadfield.

She added: 'We travelled to Majorca two days later but I wasn't able to see his body until the Monday. Even then they wouldn't let me touch him.

'I know accidents happen and he'd been sleepwalking since a teenager, but there are still lots of questions unanswered.'

Darren McCoy, who was also on the Spanish trip, told the inquest how Martin told him at midnight he was tired and needed to sleep.

Mr McCoy returned to their room at 3am but could not get in, so fell asleep outside. He was woken at 8.30am by police and the hotel manager.

Martin was found on his back, lying on pieces of a white table - part of the furniture from the balcony. There were no signs of a struggle.

Deputy coroner for Cheshire, Dr Janet Napier, said: 'There's no sign of the toxicology reports. They might tell us how much alcohol he had drunk.'